Improvement in hammock-lounges



1.6. CRAFT.

Hammock-Lounges.

Patented September 2, 1873.

Inventor UNITED STATES J. onnw CRAFT, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAMMOCK-LOUNGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 142,327, dated September 2, 1873 application filed April 11, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it 'known that I, J. CREW CRAFT, of the city and county of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hammock-Lounges; and I do mock-lounge slung with the frame open, and

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the frame closed.

Similar letters of reference in the accompanying drawings denote the same parts.

This invention has for its object to provide an article of furniture that can be used either as a hammock or lounge, and which can also be folded compactly, and is, moreover, portable. To this end the invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, which I will now proceed to describe.

In the accompanying drawing, A A represent two parallel strips of any desired dimensions, the same being divided at their middle into two equal parts, which are hinged together so as to fold the one upon the other.

These strips form the foundation of the hammock-frame. B are levers arranged in pairs -one pair near each end of the framethe two levers of each pair being connected by similar cross-pieces. Each of the levers B has a pair of lugs, D, extending outward from it near its upper end, and between each pair of these logs is jointed the upper end of a stay-bar, E, the lower extremity of each staybar being jointed to the end of the strip A nearest to it. The stay-bars E and levers B stand inclined outward when in use, the lower bifurcated ends of said levers, in this case, bearing upon projections F on the strips A. G is'the hammock, to each corner of which a cord, H, is fastened. All the cords H pass through holes'in the two end pieces I, and

thence run to eyes J, fastened in the upper ends of the levers B, to which eyes the outer ends of said cords are attached. Secured to the ends of the hammock, at equal intervals between the cords H, are other cords K, which also pass through holes in the end pieces I, whence said cords all converge toward rings L, to which they are fastened. The rings L are hung on hooks M, which are placed at the centers of cross-bars O, which are passed through the eyes J. Hence 'it will be 'seen that the weight of the person lying on the hammock is supportedprimarily by the cords H K and cross-bars O, and secondarily by the levers B, and ultimately by the stay-bars E, which latter would answer this purpose equally well if they were straps, as the strain comes upon them lengthwise and outward from their points of connection with the strips A. By removing the cross-bars 0 from the eyes J the hammock is disconnected from the frame, and the latter can then be folded compactly together so as to be portable, as shown in Fig. 2. P is a flap, sewed at one end to the hammock, and having a pillow, 1%, formed with it at its outer extremity, which pillow is connected by cords S with the cross-bars 0. It is intended that these cross-bars shall be somewhat elastic so as to give sufficient spring to the hammock.

, I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the jointed strips A, levers B, stay-bars E, cross-bars O, hammock G,a1id cords H K, arranged and operating substantially as described.

2. The combination of the hammock G, flap P, pillow B, cords K, cross-bars O, levers B, stay-bars E, and jointed strips A, arranged and operating substantially as specified.

J. CREW CRAFT.

Witnesses:

MELVILLE UnUnon, Gno. E. BROWN. 

